From the wards of New Orleans to the cornfields of Iowa and the slopes of Colorado, from the rave parties of Los Angeles to the hollows of Appalachia and the canyons of Wall Street, Americans talk about love in this collection of interviews. Tortured teenagers, free-spirited octogenarians, anxious Navy wives, blue-blooded bohemians, desirous-but-chaste pastors, and multiple-partnered cosmopolitans tell extraordinary tales of broken hearts, sexual infidelities, improbable reconciliations, hidden and forbidden love, preposterous unions, and endurance against all odds. They are wise and foolish, comic and tragic, full of surprises, and straight from the heart.